Article
Host immune responses accelerate pathogen evolution.
The ISME journal - 1 Mar 2014
Trivedi Pankaj, Wang Nian
Abstract excerpt
Pathogens face a hostile and often novel environment when infecting a new host, and adaptation is likely to be an important determinant of the success in colonization and establishment. We hypothesized that resistant hosts will impose stronger selection on pathogens than susceptible hosts, which...
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